In fact, some White Sox people cringed when Williams began talking openly about “rebuilding.”

“We are not rebuilding,” one of them said forcefully.

More from the “White Sox people”:

Third, the word in both the international scouting community and among White Sox people is that the Sox could be very involved in the bidding for 26-year-old Cuban outfielder Yoenis Cespedes, who should become a free agent next month.